The defense never called the key medical expert. The prosecution charged murder without a confession or a witness to intent. The post-conviction petition was filed one day late. And then Mackenzie Shirilla agreed to do a Netflix documentary that a fellow inmate immediately used to undermine her. A defense attorney says the failures in this case run in every direction. Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for driving her car into a building in Strongsville, Ohio at nearly a hundred miles per hour, killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. She was seventeen. She's serving fifteen years to life. Netflix's The Crash put the case back in front of millions. And criminal defense attorney Bob Motta says that everyone — her legal team, the prosecution, and Mackenzie herself — made decisions that compounded the damage. Motta examines the defense that should have existed: the POTS expert who was never called, the competing I-71 accounts that were never introduced, the accident reconstruction that never happened. He breaks down the prosecution's case and asks whether murder was the right charge or whether a compelling narrative did the work that proof couldn't. And he confronts the post-conviction reality — whether the documentary helped or hurt, what the families' public activism means for parole, how a digital footprint from age seventeen follows you into a hearing at thirty-three, and what Mackenzie should actually be doing right now to have any shot at a future. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #MackenzieShirilla #TheCrash #TheCrashNetflix #DominicRusso #DavionFlanagan #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Justice